New Waves in Truth

ISBN-13: 9780230580701 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 319 str.

Nikolaj Pederson; Cory Wright

Opis

What is truth? Philosophers are interested in a range of issues involving the concept of truth beginning with what sorts of things can be true. This is a collection of eighteen new and original research papers on truth and other alethic phenomena by twenty of the most promising young scholars working on truth today.

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Series Editors' Preface Notes on the Editors List of Contributors PART I: DEFLATIONISM AND BEYOND Truth as Conceptually Primitive; D.Patterson Rejectionism about Truth; M.Eklund New Wave Deflationism; N.Damnjanovic Why Deflationists should be Pretense Theorists (and Perhaps Already Are); B.Armour-Garb & J.A.Woodbridge PART II: ASCRIPTION, ATTRIBUTION, PREDICATION Compendious Assertion and Natural Language (Generalized) Quantification: A Problem for Deflationary Truth; J.Collins Explicit Truth Ascriptions; C.Horisk PART III: TRUTH VALUES Deflationism and Gaps; P.Greenough Falsity; K.Scharp PART IV: THE VALUE OF TRUTH Metarepresentation and the Cognitive Value of the Concept of Truth; G.Rattan Truth, Autonomy, and the Plurality of Goods; A.Kovach True Belief is not Instrumentally Valuable; C.B.Wrenn PART V: REALISM AND CORRESPONDENCE The Makings of Truth: Realism, Response-dependence, and Relativism; D.López de Sa Truth, Pluralism, Monism, Correspondence; C.D.Wright & N.J.L.L.Pedersen Representation-Friendly Deflationism versus Modest Correspondence; P.Marino PART VI: KINDS OF TRUTH AND TRUTH-APT DISCOURSE Truth and Error in Morality; D.Dorsey Perspectival Truth and Color Primitivism; B.Brogaard A New Problem for the Linguistic Doctrine of Necessary Truth; G.Russell How to be an Expressivist about Truth; M.Schroeder Index

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BRADLEY ARMOUR-GARB is Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, State University of New York, Albany, USA BERIT BROGAARD is Associate Professor, Philosophy Department University of Missouri, St. Louis, USA and RSSS Visiting Fellow, Philosophy Program, Australian National University, Australia JOHN COLLINS is Lecturer, School of Philosophy, University of East Anglia, UK NIC DAMNJANOVIC is Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Western Australia, Australia DALE DORSEY is Assistant Professor& Graduate Advisor, Department of Philosophy, University of Kansas, USA MATTI EKLUND is Associate Professor, Sage School of Philosophy, Cornell University, USA PATRICK GREENOUGH is Senior Lecturer, Department of Philosophy, University of St. Andrews and Associate Fellow, Arché Research Centre, UK CLAIRE HORISK is Assistant Professor& Graduate Advisor, Department of Philosophy, University of Missouri, Columbia, USA ADAM KOVACH is Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, Marymount University, USA DAN LÓPEZ DE SA is ICREA Reseacher, LOGOS, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain and Associate Fellow, Arché Research Centre, UK PATRICIA MARINO is Associate Professor& Associate Chair for Graduate Studies, Department of Philosophy, University of Waterloo, Canada DOUGLAS PATTERSON is Associate Professor at Philosophy Department, Kansas State University, USA and Institut für Philosophie, Universität Leipzig, Germany GURPREET RATTAN is Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Toronto, Canada GILLIAN RUSSELL is Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, Washington University, St. Louis, USA and Visiting Research Fellow, Tilburg Institute for Logic and Philosophy of Science, Universiteit van Tilburg, The Netherlands KEVIN SCHARP is Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, Ohio State University, Marion, USA MARK SCHROEDER is Associate Professor& Graduate Director, Department of Philosophy, University of Southern California, USA CHASE B. WRENN is Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Alabama, USA JAMES A. WOODBRIDGE is Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA